Due Process

Should a terrorist act preclude someone from making a refugee claim under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act? What if that terrorist act was committed years ago in a move to advocate for democracy? These…

When looking at the actions of the Crown and police in the wake of a high profile homicide, it is startling to realize how precarious things can quickly become for them. Relatively minor transgressions that…

The Trump administration is currently posing a real and immediate threat to a community of Somali immigrants in Minnesota. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been detaining and threatening to deport 92 Somali immigrants through…

Winston Blackmore and James Oler, former leaders of the religious community Bountiful in southeastern BC, have been convicted of polygamy. Both are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a sect…

Earlier this month it was revealed that the Canadian government was settling with Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who had spent eight years in detention at a US naval base in Cuba known as Guantanamo…